There are six new players on the Clippers‘ roster and six players who are 25 or younger. Head coach Tyronn Lue finds himself doing more teaching in training camp and he doesn’t mind the change, he told Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times.
“I love it,” Lue said. “It gives me something to do. The young guys, just teaching. The new guys, teaching, understanding spacing, understanding how to execute offensively, what we’re looking for first, second, third option. So, it’s been good.”
Lue added that he doesn’t expect everyone to absorb the lessons immediately.
“I have patience,” Lue said. “You gotta have patience with a group. You can’t get frustrated, but the guys are picking stuff up very well. But I like to teach, make sure we’re in our right spots, let them understand why we’re doing certain things and why you got to set the screen here instead of there, why you gotta be here making the pass instead of there. So, it’s a lot of teaching, but it’s good.”
We have more on the Clippers:
- With Paul George in Philadelphia, James Harden becomes the second option behind Kawhi Leonard. Leonard said the veteran guard shares the same mentality that he has. “The relationship has been great,” Leonard told The Athletic’s Law Murray. “He came in last year wanting to win and saying that he wanted to sacrifice and do the things we needed to do to win games. So going into this year, he has the same mindset. You just want another guy on your team that is like-minded and is just willing to do anything that it takes for us to win. I think it’s a good relationship so far. We can be transparent to each other about how we’re playing, good or bad. So I think it will be good moving forward.”
- The breakdown on Terance Mann‘s extension looks like this — he’ll make $15.5MM in 2025/26; $15.5MM in 2026/27; and $16MM in 2027/28, Spotrac contributor Keith Smith tweets. It’s a fully guaranteed deal with no options, Smith adds. Mann signed the extension on Oct. 2.
- In case you missed it, P.J. Tucker is on indefinite leave from the team. Get the details here.
Leonard talking as if he and Harden are the only two guys on the roster willing to sacrifice something to win. If that’s the case this team is destined to not win a game all aeason How you gonna spout such nonsense when you haven’t come close to playing regularly in years and take games off all the time to rest? What is Leonard sacrificing? And then you hype a guy who is regarded as one of the most selfish players in the game as a guy willing to sacrifice to win? Who believes that garbage? I sure hope somebody handed Kawhi a napkin after spewing that because dude had a whole lot of stupid dripping down his chin.
Luka played throughout the playoffs with multiple injuries. Apparently, Leonard is the epitome of sacrificing to win- from the sidelines!
To be fair to Leonard, he did try to come back in the playoffs. It just didn’t work and he looked truly terrible.